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He probably means 3 1/2" high at 100 yards with 150's...but that still doesn't explain zero at 200 yds. With 130's he would need to sight in 3" high at 100 yards.

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7mm-08 or 30-06 for me. Both are great for deer in those ranges.

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I built a 338-06 on a Steven's 200 bolt action.
215 grn bt shots honest 3 shot Clover leafs at 200 yes off sanbags.
Shooting it feels like a big shove, not bac.
Too each his own.

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At our range, we have steel set up at 200 yards. I could hit the smallest 5" plate all day long with any of my rifles. One of the chains broke on the 5" plate so it now swings loosely.

I hit the profile (5/8") of that plate 3 out of 4 attempts with my 7-08 using my reloads.


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I'm in the 7MMRM caliber camp.
Many calibers can do the job 200+ yards
Practice to 300 yards plus know your wind drifts/trajectories/velocities
Keep your nose in the wind and your eyes on the horizon best of luck
I have two 7MMRM rifles.
one is a hiking and tree/timber brush gun sited to MPBR 350 yards sighted with Kentucky windage fine-plex optics 160 gr nosler partition
one is a long range precision hunting rifle light hiking and still glass hunting sited in and trajectory charts to 1144 yards night force optics Berger 180gr hunting VLD

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Tough to pick one. Many will work very well. I shot one deer over 400 yards.

Cartridges that work well in my opinion start at maybe the cartridges the 6.5 loonies are all wetting their pants over through the 300 magnums.
Somewhere in the middle, say: 264, 270, 7x57, 7mm-08, 280, 284, 280AI, 7mm RM, 308, 30-06 would all work well (+similar cartridges)

The longest shot I have made on the deer was with a 30-06 with 180 CL’s and that was a little over a half mile. It was a very large buck. I was young and foolish.

If I were to pick one cartridge for deer at 400 yards, I wouldn’t go with the smaller of the above cartridges. But I seriously doubt that I’ll pull the trigger on anything except varmints that far away again.


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300 RUM or 338 EDGE


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The easiest one to find ammo and components for. In the Era of scamdemic and shortages I've acquired an 270win and found it the easiest for ammo and bullet components. I'd say the 6.5creed is pretty close and then 308win followed by 30-06. It's really not about favorite but more about what works and is available.

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They will never come up with a deer rifle that outdoes the 270 win.

Sure, you can be more “hip” with another/ newer caliber, but out to 400 yards not one of them will be “better” and ammo avail/ price in normal times is a big plus for the 270

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.270 Winchester 130 or 140 gr bullet has worked foe me for a very long time, current favorite .270 is Tikka T3 lite


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Pretty much anything you want to shoot.


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I have hunted with a pre64 model 70 Winchester Super grade featherweight in .308 since I started hunting in the 70s. It started shooting a little loose last year so I bought a new CA Mesa in 6.5 CM just today. I went with that simply because there is more 6.5 ammo in my available in area other than 308 and no one has a 308 rifle available.

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Originally Posted by Sasha_and_Abby
Pretty much anything you want to shoot.

Its off season, components are tough to come by... yet I just kept buying when things were cheap under Trump and the shelves were full...

Last couple of months, I've been going the 3 miles over to our local range and ringing steel off the bench...at 300 and 400 yds.

caliber of choice is 223.... because I have plenty of brass... just picked up 200 plus pieces yesterday, people had discarded or just didn't pick it up.

powder of choice has been Alliant Unique... 10 grains behind a bullet weighing anywhere from 40 grains to 55 grains with 50 and 53 inbetween...

so if one can do that, any hunting caliber should be quite capable of reaching out and hitting a deer sized target at 200 yds...


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Took me a lot of years of just wanting to be different and finally figured it out, the .30-06 works fine for me. The .270 and .280 work just as well


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Originally Posted by Theoldpinecricker
The easiest one to find ammo and components for. In the Era of scamdemic and shortages I've acquired an 270win and found it the easiest for ammo and bullet components. I'd say the 6.5creed is pretty close and then 308win followed by 30-06. It's really not about favorite but more about what works and is available.

That's a pretty good and relevant assessment in my book...mb


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Pretty much where the 6.5CM excels, but for me, I prefer the 270 Win over all of the 6.5s. I shoot 140s out of mine, prefer pass throughs when possible as I hunt in the GA piney woods and if they don't drop on the spot, they can be hard to find without a trail.

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Thanks guys! Seven pages of "reasons" to buy a new rifle.

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I'll be the boring one here:
.243
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30-06

Any of those 3 will get the job done and good factory ammo isn't an issue.

I would add .223 but Virginia allows nothing under.23 for deer so I've never tried any of mine deer hunting


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I haven't read all of the 7 pages and didn't see what cartridge the OP is using now, but I see his solution to be one of more practice and possibly a new scope.

For the past 45 or so years I've gone to our gun range at least one evening a week throught the year to first shoot Trap and then in the last 25 years to shoot Skeet. Along with our Trap and Skeet fields our range has target boards in front of berms at 100 yard intervals from 100 yds out to 430 yards.

For many years I was like a lot of hunters where my rifle would sit in my gun safe most of the year and I would only bring it out a week or so before deer and elk season to check it's zero, then I would shoot my deer and elk and put it back in the safe until the next year.

About 10 or so years ago we began hanging steel gongs at each of the berms on our rifle range. So with the gongs available, I would do my annual "check the zero" of my hunting rifle then I would try a few shots at the gongs. Shooting at steel gongs is much more fun than shooting paper, so about 6 years ago I began bringing one of my hunting rifles with me on my weekly trips to the range, and shoot at the gongs with it. My .300 Weatherby smacks the 430 yard gong with authority, but that is not the best rifle for plinking.

I then bought a Weatherby Vanguard chambered in .223 Rem mainly for a gong plinking rifle. It's fun and econimical to shoot, but with any wind and with ear muffs on, its hard to tell the hits on the 430 yd gong. so I bought another Vanguard chambered in .308 Win. Shells for that rifle only cost about twice as much as the .223s but it smacks the longer range gongs much louder. I now take both of these rifle with me to the range every week and shoot at least 3 shots, prone, with each rifle at each of the gongs out to 430 yards.

Most of our gongs are 15" in diameter, but we also have a 9" gong at 200 yards. After a year or so of this practice I quit shooting at the 100 yard gong and starting my shooting sessions with the 200 yard gong. Again after more practice, I now start my practice with the 9" 200 yard gong, and, if I read the wind right, I expect all of my shots to hit all of the gongs, including the 430 yard gong. Practice, practice, practice.

I have Leupold scopes with their CDS turrets on 5 of my rifles. I had Leupold make a custom turret for my hunting load for my .300 Weatherby, but for my other scopes I just verified the yardage impacts at each distance and painted a fine white line on the top of the turret for each 100 yard distance: 100, 200, 300, and 430 yards. So now I just set the turret line to each distance and ring the gong.

Two of my scopes are the Leupold Freedom models, and they are just as accurate and reliable as the VX 3i models that I have on my other rifles.


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